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Eight days after the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, we once again had to update our mass shootings database yesterday. This time, the target was not a school but a hospital. A gunman in Tulsa, who had been suffering from back pain, killed his doctor and three others before turning the gun on himself. Among his weapons was an AR-15-style rifle he bought just hours before the attack. At a time when it feels like these horrors just keep piling up, my colleague Jackie Flynn Mogensen interviewed Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen, a psychologist and the associate director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco, about how to talk to kids after a traumatic event like a mass shooting. While the interview is geared toward parents, it's a helpful read for anyone struggling to make sense of the news of the past few weeks. Check it out. —Abigail Weinberg |
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Psychologist Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen explains how children may process death differently, and why it's important to think of yourself as a "catcher" in difficult conversations. |
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BY KIERA BUTLER AND NEHA WADEKAR |
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"It's not illogical for survivors to pause and say, 'Is it worth it to come forward?'" |
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